packages without internet source in fedora

Toshio Kuratomi a.badger at gmail.com
Mon Apr 21 14:26:29 UTC 2008


Stepan Kasal wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 04:21:52PM -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
>> [...] (having to sign the Fedora CLA [to get access to
>> fedorahosted]
> 
> indeed, that is the problem.
> 
> FSF often askes contributors to transfer the copyrights to them.
> And it is controversial, and FSF has to accept exceptions in some
> cases.
> And FSF is a non-profit, whose stated goal is to promote free
> software.
> 
> Why should people have this level of trust to Red Hat, Inc., whose
> stated goal is to generate maximal profit for the shareholders?
> 
> So it seems that to lower the enter barrier, we should _not_ use FAS
> for fedorahosted.org.
> 
I would rather continue using FAS but drop the CLA requirement for a 
fedorahosted account.

-Toshio

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